“There’s light at the end of the tunnel on vaccine deliveries to Africa, but it must not be snuffed out again." Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with more than 210 million people, next month will receive more than 29 million Johnson & Johnson vaccines purchased by the government through the African Union. “We are afraid.”The country received nearly 300,000 Johnson & Johnson doses and more than 330,000 of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine in the past week. The country received more than 300,000 Johnson & Johnson doses on Sunday, about two weeks after it ran out of AstraZeneca with at least 86,000 people awaiting a second dose. South Africa is currently the only country in sub-Saharan Africa that has the capacity to manufacture the doses.

Source: ABC News July 31, 2021 06:11 UTC